Anarchist Bookfair, Saturday 27th October, London

[The Black Hand]

so let me get this right .. PRAXIS is what happenned outside the pub? theory and practice meets the jaw of some lippy cocky middle class kid .. how fucking depressing

p.s. i do not see much forward thinking theory ( maybe i should read MAYDAY ..which i will ) OR w/c practice in most of the @ movement .. certainly not practice .. particularly those represented here who shout the loudest

No, what happened outside the pub was INSTEAD of praxis. Raally it is a minor issue, the youth were playing at being grown up in a totally innappropriate manner and got disciplined by big daddy... The father of the current generation... Here is my literary flourish for today. No more. Promise.

 

[bluestreak]

the youth were playing at being grown up in a totally innappropriate manner and got disciplined by big daddy.

Alrighty then.

 

[Taxamo Welf]

Alrighty then.

ok chaps - lets not even pretend you know what's going on ok?

If you really care, its all on libcom.

 

[Taxamo Welf]

sorry that was directed at attica, not you bluestreak.

 

[The Black Hand]

ok chaps - lets not even pretend you know what's going on ok?

If you really care, its all on libcom.

What's on limpcok?

 

[Taxamo Welf]

the punching thing, in exquisite detail.

 

[The Black Hand]

the punching thing, in exquisite detail.

So mucho limpcok angst and outrage done for effect.... Anyway tacks, have you seen that brilliant magazine MAYDAY yet? Fantastic it is too, comes with a free punch i hear.

 

[Thora]

I reckon that's a photo of Tax on the front of Mayday.

 

[Steve Booth]

There's always something.....

ha ha ha no way steve booth

Fully Awesome.

Some of my friends enjoy going to the Anarchist Bookfair, and think of it as the highlight of the year. Other people I know are very fed up with the bad atmosphere these events create, and quite a few folk no longer go.

I remember about eight or nine years ago, Peter Neville was complaining about the drunks throwing beer down the staircase and then urinating off the balcony down on the people below. I think it was the same year, the Conway Hall (as it was then) got vandalised and the bookfair organisers had to pay a surcharge to cover the damage.

There always seems to be stuff like this going on, and I wonder if these incidents and problems are the mark of a serious political movement, or rather just the sign of an immature, juvenile, chaotic mess?

I think it is certain that people from outside the movement will not be attracted by these things. I wonder how the anarchist movement can ever hope to bring about a better and more just world, when it functions at that sort of level. In terms of its practicality, how can it have any ethical force?

 

[scumbalina]

, the Cunningham Amendment being described as 'irrelevant' in the bookfair brochure...

Interested in this...usually AFAIK the brochure doesn't say anything about particlar groups etc that are present. What context was this in and when?

 

[scumbalina]

the exclusion of the Catholic Worker group

Same again, when and why this happen? Up until recently they had a stall....

 

[durruti02]

No, what happened outside the pub was INSTEAD of praxis. Raally it is a minor issue, the youth were playing at being grown up in a totally innappropriate manner and got disciplined by big daddy... The father of the current generation... Here is my literary flourish for today. No more. Promise.

you really are talking shite my friend absolute shite if you believe any of the above ..

 

[rich!]

Interested in this...usually AFAIK the brochure doesn't say anything about particlar groups etc that are present. What context was this in and when?

It's in one of the TCAs they had there.

Their listing in the program was supposed to say "... irreverent..." but someone put ".. irrelevant..."

Whether an honest mistake or not is hard to say.

 

[rich!]

Same again, when and why this happen? Up until recently they had a stall....

A few years back (Conway Hall, maybe? or the Camden Center?) the Catholic Worker lot weren't allowed in. They argued the toss inbetween, and have been let in since. They're definitely in the "Jesus was an anarchist" school of religion...

 

[scumbalina]

It's in one of the TCAs they had there.

Their listing in the program was supposed to say "... irreverent..." but someone put ".. irrelevant..."

Whether an honest mistake or not is hard to say.

Ahhh, I wondered if it was something to do with the word irreverent being mispelt

A few years back (Conway Hall, maybe? or the Camden Center?) the Catholic Worker lot weren't allowed in. They argued the toss inbetween, and have been let in since. They're definitely in the "Jesus was an anarchist" school of religion...

Cheers. You have all the goss

 

[Paul Marsh]

The saddoes can be quite persist.

Can you remember the fuss over the Anarchist Heretics bookfair a few years ago?

This was a bookfair for anyone who claimed themselves to be an anarchist but who was 'not allowed' to the main event. The main organisers were the third positionist Troy Southgate, and that dodgy old political tourist Terry Liddle.

In the event Heretics bookfair never happened, but I noticed Mr Liddle has reinvented himself again, and was behind some Radical History stall at this years bookfair.

 

[chico enrico]

I remember about eight or nine years ago, Peter Neville was complaining about the drunks throwing beer down the staircase and then urinating off the balcony down on the people below. I think it was the same year, the Conway Hall (as it was then) got vandalised and the bookfair organisers had to pay a surcharge to cover the damage.
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i bet that was crusty punks who did that. they should have been given a kicking and frogmarched to the cash machine and all their money taxed off them.

and then given another kicking.

if i ran the bookfair i wouldnt let smellies in anyway.

 

[cantsin]

A non-anarch (an archist?) responds: there's nothing wrong with reporting thuggery to Mr Plod and trying to get him to do something about it. It's the right thing to do. However, don't get your hopes up. It is likely, especially if the thuggery was minor, that all you'll get out of it is a bloody crime number.

jesus wept

 

[cantsin]

*Forms Union of Geeks, Weeds, Unpopular Kids, Spazzes, and Allied Trades*

+ Grasses

 

[In Bloom]

i bet that was crusty punks who did that. they should have been given a kicking and frogmarched to the cash machine and all their money taxed off them.

and then given another kicking.

if i ran the bookfair i wouldnt let smellies in anyway.

Finally, some sensible, common sense ideas for a better bookfair